Rogue Scholar
Rogue Scholars are committed to making scholarly research and writing available and understandable to the general public, as well as to those scholars working in non-related fields. The barriers to spreading the huge amount of information generated by scholars are not ignorance and apathy, but the specialized languages and styles typically used by academics. The Rogue Scholar contends that as researchers, we are obligated to present meaningful information to the public. Such information can assist people in making informed decisions about important issues and help them understand the manner in which this information was gathered and processed. The understanding of what constitutes scholarly research as opposed to conjecture or opinion (often in the guise of "entertainment") is an important tool in safe-guarding our fundamental rights in a democracy.
Rogue Scholar Panels
Roundtable I: Out of the Tower
and into the Streets
WSCA 1997
Roundtable II: Return of the
Rogue Scholar
NCA 1997
Roundtable III: The Rogue Scholar
Strikes Back
SSCA 1998
Roundtable IV: The Virtual Menace
CSCA 2000
published in the American Communication Journal, Vol. 3, Issue 3, May 2000
Roundtable V: Communication, Action, and Policy
Proposed for NCA 2002
Rogue Scholar Research
Regulation and Emerging Micro
Media:
FCC Enforcement Difficulties with Micro Radio
Ted M. Coopman
Paper presented at the 1996 Speech Communication Association annual
meeting in San Diego
Free Radio v. the FCC:
A Case Study of Micro Broadcasting
Ted M. Coopman
Paper presented at the Speech Communication Association annual
meeting, Chicago 1997
On the Stoop: An Invitation to
ACJ's Virtual Front Porch
Stephanie J. Coopman
Editorial in Volume 1, Number 1 of the American
Communication Journal